Horror and suspense-filled movies, books, and stories are America's favorite form of entertainment. One of the most famous American writers is Edgar Allen Poe who wrote the two famous stories "The Tell- Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat". In the "The Tell- Tale Heart" and " The Black Cat" narrative and imagery is used to express the main characters' eerie sense of evil. Both stories lack moral sentiment yet describe conscience. They also make one tremble with fear and think with suspense.
             "The Tell- Tale Heart" is about a crazy man who was insanely convinced that an old sick man had an evil eye. Poe begins the story, "True I am Nervous- Very Nervous." This tells the reader that the story is written in the first person. The crazy man is nervous because he killed the sick old man. He did not just kill him, but he buried him in the floor of the old man's room. This was ironic because the crazy man was the old man's caretaker. Also, he was not supposed to kill him, his job was to take care of him.
             The police were called to go to the house because of the loud noises. The crazy man finally confessed to the police when they were about to leave. He said that he heard the beating of the old man's heart. It was really his conscience because the old man was dead. Although Poe wrote this story in a horrifying manner he shows how the incredible evil in the narrator is matched by his torturing conscience. Poe refers to this as perversity. The murder is content with his crime, but then wants to reveal it due to his annoying conscience.
             Poe writes with extreme detail, so having the main character tell the story is helpful. In " Tell- Tale Heart" the crazy man is the narrator. He discusses his obsession to kill the old man and later describes his conscience eating away at him. As the main character tells the story it becomes easier for us, the readers,...